{"id":232028,"date":"2025-10-29T12:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/232028\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T12:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:36:14","slug":"buttress-reveals-housing-plans-for-site-of-flattened-stirling-prize-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/232028\/","title":{"rendered":"Buttress reveals housing plans for site of flattened Stirling Prize winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 30-year-old building, which had lain empty for nearly a decade, was flattened to make way for the major redevelopment of the area backed by the university, Salford City Council and the English City Fund (ECF).<\/p>\n

The university confirmed to the AJ that the block had been pulled down \u2018in line with the demolition approval\u2019 as the plans for the plot north of the Farmer Norton car park were lodged.<\/p>\n

The Hodder<\/a> building was completed in 1995<\/a> and was described as a \u2018dynamic, modern and sophisticated exercise in steel, glass and concrete\u2019 when it won the first RIBA Stirling Prize the following year. It was originally designed to be the School of Electrical Engineering before a change of use, during construction, to the Faculty of Art and Design Technology.<\/p>\n

Despite efforts from environmental campaigners and a failed attempt by heritage group The Twentieth Century Society<\/a> to get the landmark listed, the council signed off<\/a> the university and ECF\u2019s \u2018prior approval\u2019 application for demolition just before Christmas last year.<\/p>\n

Buttress\u2019s proposal, known as Old Adelphi, sits within the proposed wider Adelphi Village residential community of around 800 homes east of the River Irwell. It is one of the zones that make up the \u00a32.5 billion, 240-acre Crescent Salford masterplan, which aims to provide more than 3,000 homes in total.<\/p>\n

The scheme features a mix of one, two, and three-bedroom apartments and duplexes across tgree buildings, rising to five and six storeys, opposite the Willohaus \u2013 100 Passivhaus apartments currently under construction.<\/p>\n

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Massing of the Buttress Old Adelphi scheme<\/p>\n

Lawrence Myatt, senior project manager at ECF, said: \u2018Through Crescent Salford, we\u2019re creating communities that are built to last, and this next stage of Adelphi Village will deliver a diverse mix of homes to meet the needs of people in Salford.\u2019<\/p>\n

Myatt said the proposed homes, on the now cleared site had been \u2018designed with sustainability, wellbeing, inclusivity and community in mind\u2019.<\/p>\n

Hodder Associates founder Stephen Hodder said that it was \u2018very disappointing\u2019 that the Centenary hadn\u2019t been adapted and repurposed for the community.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the AJ when plans to demolish the block first emerged last November<\/a>, Hodder said he had received the news with \u2018great dismay\u2019.<\/p>\n

He said: \u2018This is not borne out of nostalgia, it being the inaugural RIBA Stirling Prize winner, nor indeed the importance of the building to the development of our practice, but as an original signatory to Architects Declare and past chair of the Construction Industry Council\u2019s Climate Change Committee, I simply cannot support the demolition of a building that is only 30 years old.<\/p>\n

\u2018For a university that promotes its sustainability credentials, the intention to demolish surely undermines the credibility of its policy.\u2019<\/p>\n

If Buttress\u2019s Old Adelphi is handed consent by Salford City Council, work is due to begin in spring next year.<\/p>\n

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